Salad Glaze: Pack your lunch in a jar

Forget retro cocktails in a jam jar (enough already) because it's the turn of salad in a jar - the new practical, portable lunch with a healthy fashionable following.

Why? Because jam jars, or Consol jars if you want to stay on brand, are airtight, crafty little portion controllers, odour-free and, best of all, a nifty way to avoid soggy-salad syndrome (if you put the dressing in first, then layer vegetables on top, the salad remains undressed until you mix it up). Plus, they keep longer, so you can prep your meal the night before.

Health-conscious hipsters are all abuzz with the idea of using the jars to create fermented salads too (try mixing cabbage, carrots and peppers with salt, allowing to sit for five minutes to extract moisture, and allow to rest - crucially in an air-tight jar - for a week).

Said to increase the gut's good flora, fermented salads encourage healthy digestion, better vitamin levels and helpful enzymes and antibiotics, which together pack one hell of an immune-boosting punch.

If you fancy the idea of lunch in a jar, fermented or otherwise, so advanced is the meal-time phenomenon that it's now even got its own Pinterest board for recipe ideas.

So step away from Tupperware, plastic and polystyrene because the future of the DIY lunch is as clear as glass.